Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.